Samuel S. Phelps

Samuel Shethar Phelps (13 May 1793-25 March 1855) was a US Senator from Vermont (W) from 4 March 1839 to 3 March 1851 (succeeding Benjamin Swift and preceding Solomon Foot) and from 17 January 1853 to 16 March 1854 (succeeding William Upham and preceding Lawrence Brainerd).

Biography
Samuel Shethar Phelps was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1793, and he served as a US Army paymaster during the War of 1812 before becoming a lawyer in Middlebury, Vermont. He served in the State House from 1821 to 1832 and on the Vermont Supreme Court from 1832 to 1838, when he was elected to the US Senate. Phelps, a Whig, served from 1839 to 1851, and then from 1853 to 1854. He died in 1855.